I have been wondering if there would be interest in a collaborative project to design and perhaps build a Stirling Engine for an (unspecified as yet) application?The project is outlined at www.i-stirlingengine.coThere are so many enthusiasts with great ideas and engineering skill regarding Stirling engine technology and most are working on their own projects. I wondered if there was an opportunity for anybody who is interested to collaborate on a design and application? The design, application and ethos would be specified by the participants and then we can see how far we can go. I am not sure if there would be enough interest but thought I would test the water on this. The forum for the project if there is enough interest, would be on this website (with Darryl's permission first of course). This is the first posting I have made concerning i-stirlingengine.co online (except for the i-stirlingengine website) and will serve as a gauge of whether there is enough interest and enthusiam to collaborate online and design a Stirling engine for an application. It may be of course that patents, intellectual property concerns etc might preclude this idea ever starting. Anyway I thought I would put the idea out there and see if anybody is interested.

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Really good explanation about stirling engine processes strait from the Guru's, Philips...Starts slow, but is really worth the 15 minutes of your time in my opinion.(there's even a 30hp stirling powered boat)

Really helpful website for understanding stirling and other type engines.You can slow stop, reverse and manually rotate engines by using slider bar. I came across it a couple of years ago and spent much time looking at it and playing with the animations.It helped me get my head around stirling cycles........ i think??

Its the first video footage of the nasa stirling engine vehicles that i've come across! "YaY"!!

If anyone else has any good video's (or links) to Nasa, Philips, Ford, GM, AMC etc, stirling videos. please put them up..Every now and then they show up on u tube, but i'm sure there are some realy good vids out there in the void or in someones collection, waiting to be re-discovered.vamoose

Being a sort of noob, getting back into Stirlings after decades away, I have spent the past few weeks trawling for reliable plans for a simple first project that is guaranteed to run when all the work is done, providing it is build properly of course. Here are a few of my favourites so far:

Another version of the Ky-Ko Stirling engine fan by Dr Senft is here:http://courses.washington.edu/me355b/Fa ... iption.pdfThe Ky-Ko is a simple, old fashioned Stirling engine that can be made from common metal stock, no need for graphite pistons and glass tubes etc. It would be simple to turn the Ky-Ko engine on its side, substitute a flywheel for the fan blades and make a nice old fashioned Stirling engine.